The Bucks Arms

The four en suite rooms, decorated in National Trust heritage colours, offer facilities including digital TVs and Wi-Fi access, while the accommodation is family and dog friendly.

The restaurant offers a diversity of seasonal local produce and rare breed meats while the freehouse pub has a range of Norfolk ales.

Once owned by the Boleyn family and voted as Britain’s most haunted house, the National Trust Blickling Hall was built in 1616 and is a treasure trove of seasonal plants, landscaped gardens and romantic buildings.

Nearby market town Aylsham is noted for its Monday auctions of antiques and collectibles and the Bure Valley Railway, a popular steam train service which connects to Wroxham, the ‘capital’ of the magnificent Norfolk Broads.

The North Norfolk Heritage Coast, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty with picturesque villages, unspoilt beaches and nature reserves, begins just a few miles away. The historic cathedral city of Norwich is a twenty-minute drive.